Böcker i Rethinking Globalizations-serien

This book considers the increasing importance of both labour migration and precarious work in our global world. It goes on to ask whether such migrants may become a key component in the social movement emerging to counter globalisation.This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

By the 1970s the global hegemony established by an American Empire in the post-World War II period faced increasing resistance abroad and contradictions at home. This book focuses on the construction of and challenges to the military, economic, and cultural imperial projects of the United States in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Argues that globalization is not an exotic phenomenon. Instead this book emphasizes that globalization is something that has been with us as long as there have been people who are both interdependent and aware of that fact. It studies globalization from the vantage point of long-term global history permits theoretical and empirical investigation.

Examines the possibilities and obstacles to transnational solidarity in a period of global restructuring. This title brings together a range of international and transnational case studies, examining successful and failed transnational solidarity covering inter-trade union co-operation.

In Challenging Inequality in South Africa: Transitional Compasses leading scholars of South Africa explore creative possibilities to challenge structures of economic, social and political power that produce inequality.

This collection interrogates the multifaceted ways in which global transformations are constituted by deeply gendered socio-economic practices at the level of the 'everyday'. It originally published as a special issue in Globalizations.

Brings together international experts on world politics, history and the social sciences to develop a long-term analysis to address the problems of globalization.

Shows how globalization is 'contestable' in many different ways and how the counter-movements we have seen emerging over the years also 'bear witness' on behalf of an alternative human future. This book is of interest to students and scholars of international relations, politics and of globalization and global governance in particular.

Are the growing oppositions to neoliberal market globalism able to develop meaningful alternative ideologies? Is there any substantial alternative to the world capitalist system on the horizon? This book answers such questions by examining the intellectual structure of the so-called 'anti-globalization' or 'global justice' movement.

"Labour, Geopolitics and Development in East Asia shows that such inter-linkages between labour, geopolitical transformations, and states' developmental strategies have been much more central to East Asia's development than has commonly been recognised"--

This book explores the ways in which contemporary forms of political dissent are disciplined and provides a nuanced series of analyses of the activities, complexities and significance of the `anti-globalisation¿ movement.This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Examines international labour export of Filipino migrant workers and forms of resistance to globalization.

Containing previously unpublished material, a review of the legacy and work of Andre Gunder Frank

This book employs critical rationalism to formulate a sociological theory of globalisation. The author uses this theory to provide a new sociological analysis of contemporary globalisation; to critique the current form of globalisation; and to introduce an alternative vision of globalisation.

Analyses the global financial and economic crisis, the most severe in nearly a century, and a wider set of multiple and converging crises with aspects and repercussions that go well beyond the current economic climate. This title addresses numerous key aspects of the relationship between Globalization and global crises, past, present, and future.

This book explores the work of Robert W. Cox across IR, IPE, and International Historical Sociology. Cox has been a key figure in so-called critical approaches to world politics, contributing to the inter-paradigm debate in IR, pioneering the Gramscian approach to IPE, developing key insights into international institutions, and the changing nature of capitalism and the state. This volume provides an entry-point into Cox¿s work across history, theory, political economy, and civilizations, offering a way for readers to engage with Cox¿s rich legacy and deploy the many insights of his thought into contemporary scholarship. This book was first published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Focusing on the intersection of time and globalization, this innovative collection aims to create an interdisciplinary dialogue between the (largely separated) respective literatures on each of these themes. It illustrates the theoretical benefits of bridging time with globalization and also exemplifies the methodological strengths of engaging in cutting-edge, interdisciplinary scholarship to better understand the changing economic, social, political, cultural and ecological dynamics in this globalizing world. This book was originally published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Revisiting the magnetic poles of Karl Polanyi and Friedrich Hayek on the utopian springs of political economy, this book seeks to provide a compass for questioning the market economy of the twenty-first century.

Explores the place of knowledge in contemporary capitalism by raising the question of how labour movements learn, what strategies they deploy to defend their interests and to what extent processes of neoliberal globalization and the new geography of global capitalism are producing alternative geographies of labour knowledge production and practice.

Globalisation is usually said to be about markets and power and culture. Whither Globalisation? goes further, arguing that globalisation may also be understood as a way of knowing and representing the world.

Accepting the existence of economic globalization processes, this book explores whether it is truly a 'global' process. It examines how globalization is experienced around the world and compares its intensity and impact in industrialized countries, and developing countries.

Analyzes the impact of globalization on the concept of popular sovereignty and rethinks it for the transnational domain. This book explores how popular sovereignty has determined the form of democratic citizenship and how democratic citizenship and legitimacy can be conceived in the transnational sphere in the absence of a global sovereign order.

Discussing the Employment paradigm that formed the dominant mode of development after the Second World War through to the 1970s, this book considers the economic and political forces that resulted in its eventual decline. It is suitable for students and scholars of international political economy, international relations, and labour studies.

Severe poverty is one of the greatest moral challenges of our times. But what place, if any, do ethical thinking and questions of global justice have in the policies and practice of international organizations? This book examines this question based on an analysis of the two major multilateral development organizations (World Bank and the UNDP).

Emphasizing the social processes that underpin the global economy and demonstrating how the uneven effects of global economic integration impact upon actors, this book underlines the reciprocal effects that reconfigure the terrain of global accumulation.

A collection of essays on rethinking the mainstream security paradigms. It presents an analysis of the long-term sources of political, military and cultural insecurity from the local to the global. It provides a basis for understanding the causes of conflict and violence in the world.